"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."

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Source : "How to Keep Young," Collier's, 13 June 1953

Satchel Paige

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“I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they don't make sense.”

Source : Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 12, 2014.
“Father was afraid of laughter and joy. He was particularly afraid of ridicule. He was afraid that someone would say that humans are descended from apes. Or that the earth is much older than four thousand years. Or that someone would ask where Noah go his polar bears from. Or that someone would swear. Father was terrified.”

Source : Guus Kuijer (2012). “The Book of Everything”, p.77, Scholastic Inc.
“At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there.”

Source : Interview by Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.
“Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you.”
“I am not at all sure we could ever reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians' present leadership. We shall have to wait for the next generation. The most we could expect is, perhaps, another interim agreement. A Palestinian state? A permanent settlement? I do not see that happening in the coming years.”
“Love is the hardest thing to grasp. You have to seize it at once, else it may be too late.”
“I don't defeat my opponents, they defeat themselves.”
“I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.”

Source : Renee Fleming (2005). “The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer”, p.179, Penguin

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